It’s been a while since Betty Blocks organized the greatest no-code event of 2019, but people are still talking about it. Bummer if you missed out, but we have some good news: you can now access all the presentations you really need to watch to be...
Betty Blocks Academy: Meet Adil
If you know us, you’ve probably heard our big, hairy, audacious goal: “By 2023 any human will be able to build an application.” Bryan Oemar, head of the Betty Blocks Academy, is helping turn that vision into a reality. The Academy teaches developers...
EAU’s ‘Oxygen’ Application Earns Best Event Technology Award
Congratulations to Antoine van der Velden, Project Manager at the European Association of Urology. Together with his development team, Antoine succeeded in creating an award-winning event management and process improvement application entirely using...
Meet the Platform: Pre-Made UI Templates
It’s time to take a closer look at everyone's favorite Betty Blocks platform feature, the UI builder. If you need a quick refresher, the UI builder is a 'What you see is what you get editor' (WYSIWYG for short, pronounced 'wizziewig'). The name says...
A Brief History of the Citizen Developer
If you were at Betty Blocks on Stage, you met the guru of Citizen Development: Bouwe Koopal. In his recently published book (co-authored with Bert Annink) “The World of UDI” he explains the journey to the cloud like an atlas with different places to...
5 Tips for Building a Successful Application Without Coding
Do you remember Google Wave? You’ll be 100% forgiven if you don’t because it wasn’t around for very long. What was supposed to be the “be all and end all” of group communication from Google themselves… just never took off. It’s important to remember...
Meet the Platform: UI Builder, Data Models, and Actions
So you know exactly what kind of application you want to build. You can visualize the whole thing in your head and damn is it sweet. Congratulations, you’re most of the way there. Now, let’s take a look at the specific platform features you’ll use...
How Governments Get Unstuck from Outdated Legacy Systems
A couple of weeks ago, my grandpa showed me how to burn CDs. I said, “Wow, cool grandpa, I will try it out back home.” A little later, I walk out the door with Spotify Premium streaming through my smartphone. I applaud him for making the effort to...
Women Hold Up Half the Sky (But Not in Tech, Yet)
Remember when tech was a boring place for boring men? Yeah, those days are over. Tech has become a vibrant and fun ecosystem that moves faster than ever. What hasn’t changed much is that it’s still a predominantly male world. But we think that...
2019 Market Outlook: No- and Low-Code Platforms
HpaPaaS. RAD. DPA. LCAP. OMG. WTF. Whatever you call them, there are no-code platforms and there are low-code platforms. They allow users to build different types of applications with limited coding or none at all, and they do so because software is...